Advanced Contests – Packages for Allowing Contest Creation Plugin

Do you want to monetize from the contests on your website, then here comes the Packages for Allowing Contest Creation Plugin using which you can enable Packages for creating contests on your website.

With this Extension you can allow the members of your site to create contest only after subscribing to at-least one of the packages which can be made – Free or Paid. You can made any number of Free and Paid packages by providing different features in each package according to your requirement.

The question may arise – why members will pay money to you for creating contests on your site? The Contest on your website can provide your users a way to connect to their audience and use this system for advertising their businesses. With the Social sharing, Voting, Awards, automatic Winner Announcement and many other features of Advanced Contests Plugin the reach of your users to their potential audience is not limited.

If you use the Contests Joining Fees and Payments System Plugin then you can enable a source to your users to make money from their contests on your website. They can set a fee to enable participation in their contests and make money. In return you can charge commissions from the contest owners, which again can be a new source of income for you from Contests.

Enable / Disable Packages

You can enable / disable packages for creating Contests on your website. If you enable packages, then the similar contest creation settings will not apply from Member Level settings.

Package Alignment

Packages can be shown in Horizontal alignment or Vertical alignment.Only the Existing package of the user will be shown in horizontal alignment only.

Package Title & Description

Each package can have its own title and description.

Contests Count

For each package you can choose the number of contests users will be able to create on your website.

Member Level

You can set the visibility of the package based on the member level of the user.

Billing Duration

You can choose when a package should expire.

Price

A package can be made Free or Paid. So, you can enter the price of the contest and choose the Billing Cycle to be charged: a. One Timeb. Recurring Payment

Package Creation

You can create any number of Free & Paid packages on your website. This plugin supports payment via Paypal and 2Checkout. Paid Packages can be charged One time payment or Recurring payment.

Enable SEO Fields

You can enable SEO details to be entered in contests in packages.

Enable Overview

You can enable Overview to be entered in contests in packages.

Enable Contact Info

You can enable Overview to be entered in contests in packages.

Auto Approve Contests

You can choose to auto-approve contests of paid packages and manually approve the free packages to ensure the quality of contest content on your website. Likewise, when contest owners will see difference from auto-approve contests, they will upgrade their package and you will get more payments.

Allow Custom Fields

You can choose to enable / disable custom profile fields so that the lower or free packages do not have the details in their contests, but the contests created in higher packages have more profile fields and details about their contests. More subscription to Paid packages will mean more monetization!

Automatically Marking as Featured, Sponsored, Verified, Hot

You can choose to automatically mark contests created in higher packages as featured, Sponsored, Verified or Hot so that contest owners get more encouragement to subscribe to higher packages. This will give their contests more visibility and weightage on your website.

Enable Contact All Participants

You can enable contest owners to contact all participants about contest updates, news, remind about sharing contests or anything via Messages. This feature can be very useful, so contests owners can subscribe higher packages on your website to create contests and contact the participants to update them about their contests.

Highlight Package

You can create multiple unlimited packages and choose any packages to be highlighted among all the package.

Show In Upgrade?

You can allow a package to be shown to contest owner in Upgrade Package section, so that they can upgrade to available higher packages.

Number of Awards in Contests

You can enable number of awards to be enabled in contests in packages of your site.

Enable Contest Profile Designs Selection

You can enable contests owners to choose designs of their contests on your website for each package.

Allow to Upload Contest Main Photo & Background Photo

Contest Main Photo and Background Photo can be enabled / disabled.

Default Main Photo for Contests

Default photo for contest Main photo can be uploaded different in each package for each media type contest separately.

Allow to Upload Contest Cover Photo

Contest Cover Photo can be enabled / disabled.

Default Cover Photo for Contests

Default photo for contest Cover photo can be uploaded different in each package for each media type contest separately.

Package Inclusions

You can choose the features that you want to include in the Packages for creating contests on your website. This setting will affect packages globally.a. Package Descriptionb. Featuredc. Sponsoredd. Verifiede. Hotf. Custom Profile Fields

Activate Contests

You can choose when to enable contests after payment from 3 choices:a. Enable Contest immediately, before the payment passes the gateways’ fraud checksb. Enable if user has an existing successful transaction, wait if this is their first.c. Wait until the gateway signals that the payment has completed successfully.

Package Selection & Upgrade

Users can easily select packages before creating contests on your website both from Existing packages and new Available packages.

Once a contest is created in lower package, contest owners can easily upgrade to higher packages for more features from their contest Dashboards.

Monetize Your Website

With Paid Packages for contest creation on your site you can increase your income directly on your site without making much efforts. You can make many paid packages with different features so that users can choose their package according to the need of their contests.You can set the method of payment for the paid packages in two ways:

More Quality Content

If contest creation is paid, then the chances of fake contests or users are making dummy and fake entries on your website will reduce. Thus, everyone will create genuine and good quality content which will bring more user signups on your website and better SEO ranking.
Since, with Paid contests, trust on getting awards for winning will increase, participants will share their entries with their friends to get more and more likes and votes to win a contest and Award.

Get Genuine Audience with Verified Contests

You can make a high budget package with Auto-verified contests which says the contests created under this feature will be automatically marked as Verified Contests, when members will see verified contests on your site then trust will build automatically for those contests among genuine users and they will participate in those contests.

Users will also get trust that the Awards displayed for the winners will also be provided as the contest is Verified by the site.

Highlighting Package Attracts More Users

You can make a medium range package which your site users can afford and Highlight that package with the setting in the admin panel to attract more users. First, this package is not free it will be beneficial for you and Second, this package is not very costly so most of the users will go for it who really wants to run their contests on your website with benefits of some advanced features.

Featured, Sponsored & Hot Contests Bring More Users

You can make some packages with features of Auto Featured, Sponsored & Hot Contests as per your requirement. These packages will attract more users to subscribe to the packages on your website as their contests will get highlighted with mark of Featured, Sponsored and Hot and chances of participation by members will automatically get increased.

Such contests will highlight in special widgets and may have special places on your website.

Increase Traffic on your Site

With Contests you can generate more new traffic on your site. As people shows more interest in such activities where they can get awards in return of the efforts they made and to become a winner. With Contests you can keep your members remain attached with your site and as we know all members can’t afford to subscribe for paid packages so for those users you can create Free Packages with limited amount of features. You won’t earn money from those members directly but you can keep your members busy on your site.

Administration

Admin can:

Enable / Disable packages for contest creation

Select Package Features which will be shown to users while subscribing for the Package

Set the activation of contests after payment:
– Enable Contest immediately, before the payment passes the gateways’ fraud checks
– Enable if user has an existing successful transaction, wait if this is their first
– Wait until the gateway signals that the payment has completed successfully